My Beautiful Curve Through the Dots

今天起床后，读到李开复在博客上《给女儿的一封信》。其中，最让我有共鸣的是这段：

Follow your passion in college. Take courses you think you will enjoy. Don’t be trapped in what others think or say. Steve Jobs says when you are in college, your passion will create many dots, and later in your life you will connect them. In his great speech given at Stanford commencement , he gave the great example where he took calligraphy, and a decade later, it became the basis of the beautiful Macintosh fonts, which later ignited desktop publishing, and brought wonderful tools like Microsoft Word to our lives. His expedition into calligraphy was a dot, and the Macintosh became the connecting line. So don’t worry too much about what job you will have, and don’t be too utilitarian, and if you like Japanese or Korean, go for it, even if your dad thinks “it’s not useful.” ：） Enjoy picking your dots, and be assured one day you will find your calling, and connect a beautiful curve through the dots.

之所以有共鸣，是因为觉得自己一直所坚持的东西得到了别人的肯定。大学四年时光，我对不少东西很感兴趣，然而这些东西在别人看来都是很不入流、很没价值甚至很荒诞的。而很多别人趋之若鹜的东西，例如考各种证书、学金融学政治这种能赚钱的知识，我却不屑一顾。一来自己没兴趣，二来我从来认为为了金钱而去学自己没兴趣做自己所不喜的东西是一种折磨，反而得不偿失。于是，我把别人用来“追名逐利”（夸张点说）的时间用在自己所喜欢的东西，例如语音学、世界语、拉丁语……旁人觉得很匪夷所思，像世界语这种绝对“非主流”的东西学来究竟有什么意义，还有拉丁语，根本就没人说的了。但是我依然如故，我不想当一个功利的人。四年的室友不止一次跟我说，说我这人太不功利了，要功利一点，像考个 GRE 之类的。也许我有这水平，但是我更宁愿做自己喜欢的事。虽然自己一直执着，但是旁人的“劝勉”久而久之，让我怀疑究竟自己的固执是不是有意义。而今天看到李开复这段话，我也就坦然了。乔布斯说得对，这些兴趣的“点”，最终都会被连起来而对自己有用的。李开复也说，不必太过功利，不必过于执着思索这些“点”对自己是否“有用”，相信自己，最终这些点会被连成一条美丽的曲线。

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Eric 11 October 2009 at 9:02 pm #

Steve Jobs 的那篇演讲，昨天我还重新看了一遍。

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Eric 11 October 2009 at 9:08 pm #

看看我的新头像生效没

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Eric 11 October 2009 at 9:10 pm #

再试一次 XD

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disinfeqt 15 October 2009 at 3:56 pm #

wish i could see your beautiful “l’arc en ciel” asap.
:)

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